Once a week or so, for the edification of those who need not wade in the muck and slime of the Bloggernacle, we will pick a suitable Bloggernacle post that may be of some limited value and Correlate it with the principles of the Gospel (plus, I'll comment on other stuff when I feel like it).
"Correlating your apostate posts so that all may be edified since 2008."

But, I was looking at the Gulag Archipelago over at http://www.ldsblogs.org/, and at first I couldn't figure out their rankings. Why are 9moonies and New Cooler Thing Thang rated as "Isles" whereas M&M* (which, while somewhat lethargic is practically on fire when compared to those other two) is the smaller "Isles of the Sea"?

Why on earth is "Bloggernacle Times" a "Big Island" when it's been dead (killed by Guy Murry and ECS's pathetic and crazed rantings) for over two years?

Also LDS Liberace Front is gone, yet still has a high ranking. Moron Mentality is even more active than MMMMM* or 9barebutts, but has the "Isles of the sea" ranking. Splendid Sun is also defunct, yet is still highly ranked.

In other words, the Mormon Gulag Archipelago isn't really about honest rankings of the blogs. It's all about stroking their already inflated egos. Nothing surprising there, I guess. But they should be honest. The about page should have the following sentence "Don't expect accurate rankings - we created this list purely to make ourselves feel important relative to the rest of y'all."

I seem to recall someone talking once about the dangers of "get[ting] no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest."

Well, that's what the Gulag is all about. Having "more" of it than the next blog, even if it's obviously based on false premises.

Depends how you define 'Nacle. I think there was a brouhaha where he got booted off the Gulag because he wouldn't shut up about how Evans et al. were apostates; so he set up his own rival aggregator called NothingWavering or something.

If those guys were smart, they'd take money to put your blog in the top rank when you visit from your IP address. Everyone else would still see you down in the sand bars of the arctic ocean category, but since the blogging is just an ego trip anyway they'd still get good business.

Miter Correlation, are you new around here? Get a clue, please, before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.

The MA started back in the bad old days when Times and Seasons was The Behemoth of the Bloggernacle. A group of little guys started an aggregator and grouped blogs together in whatever way they wanted to. So big whoop.

This was common knowledge three years ago, and you're acting like you're letting people in on a big conspiracy you just discovered. Have you upgraded to XP yet?

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless. -----

Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear should follow the examples of Oedipus and Van Gogh. The rest shall keep as they are.

Those who get it will get it. Those who don't, won't. I'm a poet and I know it.